| [the remarkable debate during the beginning of the nineteenth century concerning the aetiology of scabies]. | the scabies mite (acarus or sarcoptes scabiei) was known already to aristoteles, to the arabic medicine during the early and to european physicians as well as laymen during the later middle ages, depicted in 1687 by bonomo in italy and by schwiebe in germany during the beginning of the eighteenth century. later in the middle of the century three pupils to linnaeus in their doctor's theses stated that the scabies mite (acarus humanus subcutaneus) was the cause of scabies. the best pictures of the ... | 1994 | 11640410 |